ATLANTIC WOOL COMBING COMPANY v. NORFOLK MILLS, INC.

No. 6520.

357 F.2d 866 (1966)

ATLANTIC WOOL COMBING COMPANY, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. NORFOLK MILLS, INC., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Decided February 23, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Burstein, Boston, Mass., with whom Hale & Dorr, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellant.

Fernand A. Boudreau, Boston, Mass., with whom Henry Paul Monaghan, Holyoke, Mass., and Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellees.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, and HASTIE and McENTEE, Circuit Judges.


HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff and the defendants1 are competitors in the business of dehairing raw cashmere, the fleece of certain Asiatic goats. The raw fleece is a matted mass of soft down, long coarse guard hairs and various impurities. Dehairing is the process of separating the commercially valuable down from the other constituents of the matted mass.

The plaintiff's business...

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